The Downer-Riley Research Group

Personnal Information

Led By: 
Dr. Nadale Downer-Riley
Email: 
nadale.downer02@uwimona.edu.jm

Research Group

Research Supervisors
supervisorimage: 
Dr. Nadale Downer-Riley
(B.Sc., Ph.D., UWI) Lecturer in Chemistry
Students

Current Students in the Group

  • Flemoi Gordon
  • Alexa Redway
  • Sharna-kay Daley

Names of graduates from the group

  • Oscene Barrett (Ph.D., 2012Roxanne Higgins (M.Phil., 2011)
  • Andrew Morris (Ph.D., 2010)
  • Julie-Ann Grant (Ph.D., 2008)
  • Nadale Downer-Riley (Ph.D., 2007)
  • Seon Hepburn (Ph.D., 2004)
  • Norman Townsend (Ph.D., 2003)
  • Mario Anderson (Ph.D., 2002)
  • Karla-Sue Marriot (Ph.D., 2001)
  • Michael Lyon (Ph.D., 1998)
  • Gregory Simpson (Ph.D., 1996)
  • Mark Williams (M.Phil., 1996)
  • Ian Thompson (Ph.D., 1993)
  • Sharon Jones (M.Phil., 1992)
Research Interests
Research Interests: 
  • The synthesis of bioactive natural products from plants and marine microorganisms.
  • The synthesis of  heterocyclic molecules
Publications
  1. Ainka T. Brown and Nadale K. Downer-Riley (2020). Copper Catalysis for Pyridines and Pyrimidines. In A. Srivastava (Ed.), Copper in N-Heterocyclic Chemistry. Elsevier. (Book Chapter in press)  

     
  2. Sharna-kay Daley and Nadale Downer-Riley, “The Biomimetic Synthesis of Balsaminone A and Ellagic Acid via Oxidative Dimerization”.  Beilstein J. Org. Chem., 2020, 16, 2026. 

     
  3. Nadale K. Downer-Riley (2019). Synthesis and Functionalization of S-heterocycles via CDC Reactions. In A. Srivastava & C. Jana (Eds.), Heterocycles via Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling: Synthesis and Functionalization (pp. 279-308). Springer Nature, Singapore. 

     
  4. Sharna-kay A. Daley and Nadale K. Downer-Riley, “An Improved Synthesis of Balsaminone A”, Synlett, 2019, 30, 325. Nadale K. Downer-Riley and Yvette A. Jackson, "Recent advances in the synthesis of 1,3-azoles", Curr. Top. Med. Chem., 2016, 16. 3617. 

     
  5. Nadale Downer-Riley and Latoya Wright, “Synthesis of naphthoquinone-azoles as potential antibacterial agents”, Jamaican Journal of Science & Technology, 2014, 25, 18. 

     
  6. Albert Padwa, Yan Zou, Bo Cheng, Hao Li, Nadale Downer-Riley and Christopher S. Straub. "Intramolecular Cycloaddition Reactions of Furo Α, 4-b] indoles for Alkaloid Synthesis."  J.  Org. Chem., 2014, 79, 3173. 

     
  7. Nadale K. Downer-Riley, Highlight Syntheses, Annu. Rep. Prog. Chem., Sect. B: Org. Chem., 2013, 109, 43.

     
  8. Nadale K. Downer-Riley and Yvette A. Jackson, Selenium(IV) oxide-tert-butylhydroperoxide (2012) Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis [Online], John Wiley & Sons Ltd., DOI:

    10.1002/047084289X.rs009 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/o/eros/articles/rs009/frame.html.

     
  9.  Oscene V. Barrett, Nadale K. Downer-Riley and Yvette A. Jackson, “Thermally induced cyclization of electron-rich N-arylthiobenzamides to benzothiazoles”, Synthesis, 2012, 44, 2579. 

     
  10. Oscene V. Barrett, Nadale K. Downer-Riley and Yvette A. Jackson, “Synthesis of some novel benzobisthiazoles”, Heterocycles, 2010, 81, 1641.